Torrey, E. Fuller (Edwin Fuller)

Summary: Beginning in the 1960s in the United States, scores of patients with severe psychiatric disorders were discharged from public mental hospitals. At the same time, activists forced changes in commitment laws that made it impossible to treat half of the patients that left the hospital. The combined effect was profoundly destructive. Today, among homeless persons, at least one-third are severely...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 TOR

Summary: Presents the story of Rollen Stewart, also known as the Rainbow Man, who achieved notoriety in the late 1970s by appearing in the crowd at thousands of televised sporting events wearing a rainbow-colored afro wig and carrying signs encouraging the audience to be saved by Jesus Christ. Follows his obsession with attracting attention from the media, and his descent into violent behavior.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Other Cinema DVD 2004

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RAI